Common Name : Ocean Sunfish
Scientific Name : Mola Mola
Species Diet : Omnivore
Species/Type : Fish
Average Life Span(In captivity) : Up to 10 years
Species Size : 11 feet
Species Weight : Up to 2 tons
- A Sunfish has a bullet like shape because of its back fin. They are born with a back fin that doesn't grow at all. The back fin folds into itself as the Sunfish matures, creating a rounded rudder called a clavus.
- Mola in Latin means "millstone".
- They can be spotted in temperature and tropical islands all over the world.
- Sunfish can't fully close their mouths.
- Sunfish can get tons of skin parasites. When they do they sometimes let small fish or birds eat their skin parasites.
- Sunfish are harmless to humans but are really curious and they will often approach divers.
- Their five different types of Ocean Sunfish : Ocean Sunfish, Sharptail Mola, Southern Sunfish, Slender Fish.
- Sunfish can lay up all the way up to 300,000,000 eggs in one time.
Sources : https:www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/fish/facts/ocean-sunfish
https://www.aquarium.co.za/blog/entry/everything-you-need-to-knowq-ocean-sunfish
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